The Silicon Jungle
：A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue
Publication subTitle ：A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue
Author： Baluja Shumeet;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9781400838141
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691147543
Subject： TP Automation Technology , Computer Technology;TP3 Computers;TP39 computer application
Keyword： 自动化技术、计算机技术
Language： ENG
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Description
What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and e-mail, to social networking. When Stephen’s boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo’s vast databases to protect people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it seems. Suspicious individuals surface, doing all they can to access Ubatoo’s wealth of confidential information. This need not require technical wizardry—simply knowing how to manipulate a well-intentioned intern may be enough.
The Silicon Jungle is a cautionary fictional tale of data mining’s promise and peril. Baluja raises ethical questions about contemporary technological innovations, and how minute details can be routinely pieced together into rich profiles that reveal our habits, goals, and secret desires—all ready to be exploited.
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